once more into the breach

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Here they come Chapter 1

Check out the latest video from our Pub friends

http://www.eyeblast.tv/publ ic/video.aspx?RsrcID=2036

They are e-mailing this crap everywhere

I hope the link works
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Barak! Hussein! Obama!

It's all so feeble and stupid.  This video seems desperate and shrill to me.  It oozes weakness.  They've completely lost their edge.  I love it.

by bfaul on 06/07/2008 02:24:39 PM EST

"...his name does raise the question" (none / 0)
For many IDIOTS, perhaps.

Pathetic.  I can't wait for B. Hussein Obama to steamroll over John McSame in November.

by jarett on 06/07/2008 02:55:21 PM EST

won't have an impact (none / 0)

too long and too boring. I made it about 45 secs. in and believe me, I would finish it if I could. The authors seem to think their images would paint Barack Obama in a negative light, but that's only true I guess if you already hate him. I'm sure republicans will come up with better in the course of the campaign (i.e. more effective), because this is softball compared to '00 and '04.

The current talking point (including in this film) on the republican side is "we don't know him", which is supposed to be damning, somehow. He's going to be the next president of the united states, what the hell else do you want to know? 

"If you're not worried, you're not paying attention." --Cenk Uygur

by hazmat on 06/07/2008 05:43:05 PM EST

what they mean (none / 0)
What people really mean when they say they don't know him is "we don't care to find out who he is, because we already think we know." 

by desertpear on 06/07/2008 05:49:37 PM EST

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i think they mean (none / 0)

"he's not like me". I have heard this even from catholics in my extended family.

How easy it is to forget what it's like to be part of a marginalized minority.

About your point "we dont care to find out" etc. there's another possibility. What's weird about the comment is that it's probably true--they don't know who he is. If they did they'd have an easier time sliming him. So far they've only been able to attack people who live near him, or who were guest speakers at events he attended (or more absurdly in Pfleger's case, events he didn't attend!!!). For the democrats they "know" republicans always work up the visceral anger and partisan hatred that republicans are so good at. They don't have anything on this guy. Even evangelicals are finding it difficult to hate him. Don't get me wrong, republicans hate Obama, but they don't have a good reason to yet, and they're only 27% of the country (snicker).

But more importantly, its a talking point. As you know TP's are easy to spot if you know any hard core republicans, because you'll hear a turn of phrase that you haven't heard before, and within a day or two you'll hear the same phrase used on the cable networks. I heard this (duhr, I don't know who he is, hurk)  from a frothing-at-the-mouth insane republican relative of mine, and sure enough, a day later I started hearing the same phrase on the news. I assume its talk radio, blogs, and sometimes fox news. As we've learned so many times in the past with republicans, it doesn't matter if the talking point means anything, or if it's true, only that it gets repeated ad nauseum.

"If you're not worried, you're not paying attention." --Cenk Uygur

by hazmat on 06/07/2008 07:03:47 PM EST

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"we don't know him" (none / 0)

The "we don't know him" line is supposed to mean, "we don't know what he's done in the past (even though we could find out with some cursory investigation), so it's possible he's a terrorist.  Coupled with his funny name and the Indonesian school, it's very likely."

I agree that it's really weak and will only work with the most brainwashed of righties, who were never going to vote for Obama anyway.  So all it really accomplishes is to solidify the rest of the country against them in a "wow, those people are crazy and stupid" kind of way. 

by jawill11 on 06/07/2008 06:39:41 PM EST

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i think you're right (none / 0)
this seems like the most plausible explanation. its probably what pear was trying to say.

"If you're not worried, you're not paying attention." --Cenk Uygur

by hazmat on 06/07/2008 10:56:13 PM EST

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Is this real? (none / 0)

Or is it a parody of how lame the anti-Obama stuff is?

I can't tell.

It is definitely waaaaaaaay more funny than the "comedy" piece on Nightline about VP choices but less funy than the McCain Girls.

The most awesome part is the pic of momma Obama holding baby Barak.  His face, as a baby, looks EXACTLY like it does today.  Its like they photoshopped his face on a baby, but they didn't.

M.O.D.O.C. 

by ProfRich on 06/08/2008 12:15:24 AM EST

Frank Rich's column this week (none / 0)

is another gem. If you haven't seen it yet, git yerselfs over there and read it. He captures exactly what we're talking about on this thread. They haven't figured Obama out yet. They're confused and frightened. They're throwing everything they can already--he's either a muslim, an angry Black man, or as Tom deLay would have you believe, a Marxist. Rich (of nytimes) nails it when he says of the tuesday speeches:

Mr. McCain only reminded voters that he, like Mrs. Clinton, thinks that change is nothing more than a marketing gimmick. He has no idea what it means. “No matter who wins this election, the direction of this country is going to change dramatically,” he said on Tuesday. He then grimly regurgitated Goldwater and Reagan government-bashing talking points from the 1960s and ’70s even as he presumed to accuse Mr. Obama of looking “to the 1960s and ’70s for answers.”

"If you're not worried, you're not paying attention." --Cenk Uygur

by hazmat on 06/08/2008 01:45:00 AM EST

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